1 Preface إِنّا فَتَحنا لَكَ فَتحًا مُبينًاYusuf AliVerily We have granted thee a manifest Victory:1This is best referred to the Treaty of Hudaybiyah, for which see the Introduction to this Sūra. By this Treaty the Meccan Quraish. after many years of unrelenting conflict with Islam, at length recognised Islam as (what they thought) an equal power with themselves. In reality the door was then opened for the free spread of Islam throughout Arabia and thence through the world.